Comment

The subject of this drawing cannot be identified with complete certainty, but it seems likely that it depicts a detail of the ruined Severan arcades at the southern end of the Palatine Hill. The arcades can be seen in the background of FT199. Like Towne’s Colosseum views (for example FT192, FT195), this shows an awareness of Piranesi’s etchings of top-lit ruins with overgrowth and fallen masonry.